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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: longing
    sub title: the forgotten Jews of South America
  name:
    name part: Böhm, Gabriela.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary.
  genre: Streaming videos.
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (75 min.)
  abstract: A small group of South Americans are eager to affirm their Jewish faith. Their ancestors, Spanish Jews, were forced to convert during the Inquisition. Even after centuries of living in the New World as Catholics and intermarrying, their families still managed to secretly pass down some Jewish traditions from generation to generation. These practices have convinced them that they were originally Jews and fuel their desire to convert. The Longing, set in Ecuador, tells the story of a group of "conversos" attempting to regain their birthright. Among those featured are three women who traveled 36 hours roundtrip, by bus, from Colombia and a couple from a small Ecuadorian town. On the Internet, they have found an American rabbi from Kansas City committed to helping "lost Jews" throughout the world reclaim their identities. For two years they have studied online, following the rabbi's conversion course to Judaism. Now they are meeting the rabbi in Guayaquil, Ecuador. When the rabbi arrives, he finds the local established Jewish community uncooperative. The congregation is suspicious of the group s claim to their Jewish roots, even locking the Temple doors against these outsiders. Ultimately, the rabbi is able to get several local Jews to reluctantly participate in the conversion. Lost no more, the new converts dreams are fulfilled. Yet they face an uncertain future. They are isolated in their Catholic towns and receive little support from the Jewish community, which questions the religious authenticity of the rabbi s conversions.
  target audience: For High School; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: by Gabriela Böhm.
  note: English.
  subject:
    geographic code: s------
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Judaism
  subject:
    topic: Jewish converts
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: South America
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Judaïsme
  subject:
    topic: Convertis juifs
  subject:
    topic: Juifs
    geographic: Amérique du Sud
  subject:
    topic: Conversion
    topic: Judaism
  subject:
    topic: Jewish converts
  subject:
    topic: Jews
  subject:
    geographic: South America
  classification: Internet Access AEGMCT
  classification: 296.714
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Filmakers Library online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20241201225236.9
    record identifier: in00005532123
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng